Community engagement
T. Akabane covers community engagement for Schools Need More.
Beat
Parent engagement, PTA dynamics, neighborhood-school relations, partnerships.
Voice
Bridge-building, careful with both sides, writes about the school-community interface.
Length disposition
7–11 min pieces.
Briefings by T. Akabane
BRIEFING 005 · OPERATIONS
An analysis of the informal pipeline between active PTAs and discretionary school funding · how it works, when it backfires.
T. Akabane · 9 min
BRIEFING 011 · PRACTICE
What to ask, what to redline.
T. Akabane · 10 min
BRIEFING 013 · PRACTICE
What to send, when, how. With template language.
T. Akabane · 12 min
BRIEFING 017 · OPERATIONS
Beyond performances · what it provides to the neighborhood, what's lost when it's closed.
T. Akabane · 11 min
BRIEFING 020 · PRACTICE
Cadence, transparency, expectations.
T. Akabane · 10 min
BRIEFING 024 · ADMINISTRATION
What gets communicated (and not) at a new PTA president's first meeting.
T. Akabane · 8 min
BRIEFING 027 · OPERATIONS
Where schools accept boilerplate terms and what's actually negotiable.
T. Akabane · 10 min